From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762130AbYDQNjq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:39:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753442AbYDQNjh (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:39:37 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:52108 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbYDQNjg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:39:36 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Andy Lutomirski Subject: Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:36:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Alex Dubov , Ben Dooks , Linux kernel mailing list , =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rn_Engel?= References: <20080417090137.GB16284@fluff.org.uk> <257448.48285.qm@web36701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <48074C35.2020707@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <48074C35.2020707@myrealbox.com> X-Face: I@=L^?./?$U,EK.)V[4*>`zSqm0>65YtkOe>TFD'!aw?7OVv#~5xd\s,[~w]-J!)|%=]>=?utf-8?q?+=0A=09=7EohchhkRGW=3F=7C6=5FqTmkd=5Ft=3FLZC=23Q-=60=2E=60Y=2Ea=5E?= =?utf-8?q?3zb?=) =?utf-8?q?+U-JVN=5DWT=25cw=23=5BYo0=267C=26bL12wWGlZi=0A=09=7EJ=3B=5Cwg?= =?utf-8?q?=3B3zRnz?=,J"CT_)=\H'1/{?SR7GDu?WIopm.HaBG=QYj"NZD_[zrM\Gip^U MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804171536.47999.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18NMFf5NvTKdCcEkLUbSk7P+4hmQCX+YvWuHzR /DSpE0rK1nIuW4shH9JoTKl0pwOdXPAZ/9Nm7qWXzDBqevI/A5 8173vs8bT5OpY7b6CeIKQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 17 April 2008, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > They have nothing to do with JFFS or UBI (it's an interchange format). > > They require FTL. > > Or does using them according to the interchange spec require FTL? > > (That is, it would be really cool to finally have a supported MTD device > that doesn't need to be soldered on to the motherboard, so I could plug > the thing in and run UBIFS / JFFS2 / whatever.  I wouldn't be able to > use it for a camera, then, but it would be great for little machines > that don't need full hard drives, or for developing MTD filesystems on > readily-available hardware.) There is one MTD driver for Smartmedia/xD in the kernel, see drivers/mtd/nand/alauda.c. It is derived from the USB mass storage driver drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c, which contains another copy of the SM FTL. Arnd <><